The Somerville Divestment Project (SDP), an organization that focuses on grassroots organising in Somerville Massachusetts, is launching a campaign to divest Somerville Retirement Board Funds of over 1.4 million dollars from bonds and companies that supply arms and military equipment to Israel. The community signature drive calls for a nonbinding ballot on the question of […]
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Somerville Divestment Project Launches Grassroots Campaign to Divest from Apartheid Israel
The Somerville Divestment Project (SDP), an organization that focuses on grassroots organising in Somerville Massachusetts, is launching a campaign to divest Somerville Retirement Board Funds of over 1.4 million dollars from bonds and companies that supply arms and military equipment to Israel. The community signature drive calls for a nonbinding ballot on the question of […]
Another Day in the North: More Land Confiscations and Settlement Expansion
Throughout the West Bank, the Occupationâs network of control and oppression is unceasing in its expansion. The Apartheid Wall, Jewish-only settler bypass roads, settlements and military zones are rapidly being constructed on land stolen from Palestinian villages. In Tulkarem district, recent weeks have seen the theft of thousands of dunums more land by the Occupation. […]
Academic Union in Wisconsin Vote For Divestment
The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (TAUWP) has passed a resolution calling on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to divest from companies involved in supplying the Occupation Forces with the tools, resources and materials used in the colonization of the Palestinian people and the brutal occupation which they endure. TAUWP represents faculty […]
Academic Union in Wisconsin Vote For Divestment
The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (TAUWP) has passed a resolution calling on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to divest from companies involved in supplying the Occupation Forces with the tools, resources and materials used in the colonization of the Palestinian people and the brutal occupation which they endure. TAUWP represents faculty […]
High School Students from Canaries Hold Teach-In on Apartheid Israel
Students from the High School in Vecindario, Gran Canaria island (Spain), called for the Apartheid Wall to be destroyed and declared their solidarity with the Palestinian people during an annual festival. Around 15,000 students from across Gran Canaria attended the festival on April 22nd, which included musical, sporting and art activities. Students from the IES […]
High School Students from Canaries Hold Teach-In on Apartheid Israel
Students from the High School in Vecindario, Gran Canaria island (Spain), called for the Apartheid Wall to be destroyed and declared their solidarity with the Palestinian people during an annual festival. Around 15,000 students from across Gran Canaria attended the festival on April 22nd, which included musical, sporting and art activities. Students from the IES […]
Historic Motion for Academic Boycott Passed by AUT
A leading union in the UK, the Association of University Teachers (AUT), has voted to launch immediate boycotts of Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities and to disseminate to all its branches for consideration the Call for Boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The vote on the 22nd of April marked a historic moment in the global movement […]
Historic Motion for Academic Boycott Passed by AUT
A leading union in the UK, the Association of University Teachers (AUT), has voted to launch immediate boycotts of Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities and to disseminate to all its branches for consideration the Call for Boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The vote on the 22nd of April marked a historic moment in the global movement […]
In Egypt: Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Globalization Activists Stage a Solidarity March to Gaza and Protest against Normalization with the Occupation
***image2***Two separate sets of protests last week by Palestine solidarity activists showed the strength of the grassroots movement against Israeli Occupation and Apartheid in Egypt. On December 10, a solidarity march of 200 Egyptian and international activists set out from Cairo in five buses, intending to drive to the Gaza border to highlight the dramatic […]